Table 4.
Consumption of vitamin D-rich foods in the last 24 h by vitamin D status among 6–24-month-old underweight and normal-weight children living in an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2009–February 2012
| Underweight children | Normal-weight children | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitamin D status | Vitamin D status | |||||||||||
| Sufficient | Insufficient | Deficient | Sufficient | Insufficient | Deficient | |||||||
| Food item | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n |
| Currently breast-feeding†,‡ | 93·5 | 101 | 96·0 | 190 | 89·5 | 145 | 98·5 | 65 | 94·3 | 166 | 93·6 | 190 |
| Infant formula†,‡ | 6·5 | 7 | 10·1 | 20 | 5·6 | 9 | 27·2 | 18 | 15·3 | 27 | 8·9 | 18 |
| Powdered or fresh animal milk†,‡ | 24·1 | 26 | 20·7 | 41 | 18·5 | 30 | 22·7 | 15 | 28·4 | 50 | 30·1 | 61 |
| Dairy products (cheese, yoghurt)§,|| | 8·5 | 9 | 3·6 | 7 | 3·2 | 5 | 7·7 | 5 | 6·6 | 11 | 10·0 | 20 |
| Organ meat (liver, kidney, heart)§,|| | 4·7 | 5 | 4·1 | 8 | 3·2 | 5 | 0·0 | 0 | 4·8 | 8 | 4·0 | 8 |
| Any meat (chicken, beef, lamb, goat, duck)§,|| | 13·2 | 14 | 9·7 | 19 | 9·6 | 15 | 9·2 | 6 | 12·0 | 20 | 13·0 | 26 |
| Fresh or dried fish§,|| | 10·4 | 11 | 26·0 | 51 | 33·8 | 53 | 13·9 | 9 | 27·5 | 46 | 24·0 | 48 |
| Eggs§,|| | 29·3 | 31 | 28·1 | 55 | 26·8 | 42 | 26·2 | 17 | 23·4 | 39 | 27·0 | 54 |
†
Number of underweight children: sufficient, n 108; insufficient, n 198; deficient, n 162.
‡
Number of normal-weight children: sufficient, n 66; insufficient, n 176; deficient, n 203.
§
Number of underweight children: sufficient, n 106; insufficient, n 196, deficient, n 157.
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Number of normal-weight children: sufficient, n 65; insufficient, n 167; deficient, n 200.